Barette.



E. B. KINGMAN.

BARBTTE. APPLICATION FILED FEB.9,1905.

PATENTED JULY 10, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEroE.

BARETTE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1906.

Application filed February 9.1905. Serial No. 244,853.

To all whom itmay concern:

. Be it known that I, EDWARD B. KINGMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leominster, in the'county of WVorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Barette, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novel form of bar-pin or barette worn as an ornament in a ladys hair.

The especial object of this invention is to provide a barette which is formed froma single piece of material.

To this end this invention consists of the barette as an article of manufacture and of the combinations of parts therein, as herein after described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a partlyfinished blank from which a barette is manufactured according to this invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the complete article. Fig. 3 is a view of the opposite side of the complete article from that shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a plan view.

A barette or bar-pin of the class to which this invention relates consists, essentially, of an ornamental piece or back and a fasteningpin which is connected at one end to the back and engages a socket at its opposite end that is to say, the ordinary barette or barpin as heretofore manufactured has been fastened in the same manner as an ordinary brooch, the fastening-pin being formed separate from the body portion of the pin and being fastened or pivoted thereto in a variety of ways. In the ordinary construction also the clasp engaged by the pin has also been formed from pieces which are separate and secured to the back of the pin.

The object of this invention is to provide a barette or bar-pin of the class referred to in which the entire construction is formed from a single integral piece of material.

In manufacturing a barette constructed according to this invention a blank B is first stamped or cut out. The blank B is provided at one end with a retaining-finger 10 and at its other end with a fastening-pin 11. The edges of the blank B may be rounded or chamfered in the ordinary manner, and any style of ornamentation may be applied thereto which is desired.

To form the complete barette, the lockingfinger 10 is bent back upon itself to form the socket for receiving the pin 11, while the part of the blank which carries the pin 11 is folded down upon itself, forming a longitudinal fold on one edge and near one end, and the entire construction is bent or formed to the desired curvature to conform to the head of the wearer.

In the complete barette the fastening-pin 11 will have sufficient flexibility so that it can be sprung into or out of engagement with its socket and can be deflected from the body portion sufficiently to permit the pin to be readily inserted through the hair of the wearer.

I am aware that many changes may be made in the designs of barettes or similar pins which may be constructed according to this invention. I do not wish, therefore, to be limited to the particular barette which I have herein shown and described; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

As an article of manufacture, a barette -consisting of a single piece of sheet material comprising a back or body portion having a longitudinal fold on one edge and near one end, a spring-tongue integrally connected with said fold and extending along the rear of said back or body portion between the edges thereof, and a piece bent up transversely with respect to the back on the opposite edge and near the other end thereof forming a socket to be engaged by the springtongue.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDWARD B. KINGMAN.

\Vitnesses:

Pniur W. SOUTHGATE, MARY E. REGAN. 

